Lucky

by Alice Sebold

Madeline Miller (Introduction)

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In Lucky, a memoir hailed for its searing candour and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus.

What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit – as she struggles for understanding (‘After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes’); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction.

In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: ‘You save yourself or you remain unsaved.’

  • ISBN10 033041836X
  • ISBN13 9780330418362
  • Publish Date 6 June 2003 (first published 19 February 2000)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 26 January 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Picador
  • Edition Reprints
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 256
  • Language English